{"id":170686,"date":"2012-03-09T10:48:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=170686"},"modified":"2012-03-11T08:05:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T13:05:37","slug":"local-blues-legend-succombed-to-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=170686","title":{"rendered":"Local Blues Legend Succumbs to Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=170688\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-170688\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/03\/bugs-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bugs\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-170688\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Texas blues legend Bugs Henderson passed away Thursday night at his home. He was 69 and had been fighting liver cancer. Four months ago, Henderson announced that he was fighting cancer, which launched a series of benefit concerts to help with medical expenses. The most recent benefit concert took place Sunday at the Palladium Ballroom. Henderson was to sick to attend. Henderson grew up in Tyler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Texas blues legend Bugs Henderson passed away Thursday night at his home. He was 69 and had been fighting liver cancer. Four months ago, Henderson announced that he was fighting cancer, which launched a series of benefit concerts to help with medical expenses. The most recent benefit concert took place Sunday at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=170686\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local Blues Legend Succumbs to Cancer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 13:04:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170686"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170998,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170686\/revisions\/170998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}